Save Australia’s Animals: The Pain We Will Never Know

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Human beings, the so-called intelligent species, are so callously cruel and insensitive, that in their imagined achievement they call “civilization,” they have forgotten to respect the planet they should consider their home. They have lost respect for their fellow creatures. They have lost respect for Mother Nature.

In their everyday hustle and bustle, pursuing money and other imagined property, they don’t care about the disasters in the natural world anymore. They don’t care whether thousands of species are going extinct. And this is happening when humans are supposedly at the peak of their technological and civilizational peak in history. Well, they have peaked too early.

Shame on us for letting this happen.

The world must be grieving right now for a billion animals lost to this mass extinction event, perhaps the greatest disaster to animal life in living memory. While all of us have our part to play in this disaster thanks to the obstinance in our indifference to climate change, but also criminal negligence in terms of protecting the environment and wildlife, especially on behalf of Australia’s current administration.

Policies propelled by Australia’s conservative Liberal Party Prime Minister and climate change denier Scott Morrison are a part of the problem in the worsening wildfires in Australia. It is an eye-opener for the Australian people too who have been supporting ignorant politicians and regressive climate policies for a very long time, other than their problematically notorious anti-immigration xenophobia.

What is encouraging is that common Australian people are fighting these fires bravely. They have witnessed the disasters firsthand and they realize that they are of man’s own making. They are asking tough questions of their inept leadership. They are demanding answers. We must appreciate the selfless firefighting volunteers and the wildlife rescuers and strengthen their hands.

It is indeed our responsibility to do the firefighting at least because we simply cannot undo and reverse the damage that we have done to the planet in terms of both Amazon and Australian forest wildfires. Therefore, I urge all the readers to do their bit to save wildlife in Australia. A little help can save one more koala or kangaroo and many more endangered species indigenous to Australia that we were not even aware existed.

Please donate:

Port Macquarie Koala Hospital:

https://gofundme.com/f/help-thirsty-koalas-devastated-by-recent-fires…

Koalas in Care:

http://koalasincare.org.au/?fbclid=IwAR1L-hElZUlJ9GnIyOIiA5TnMLDpGkij8bx6KUT3zqQ-UzF74HGrtACPeGw…

The Rescue Collective:

https://mkc.org.au/donations/trcqld…

WIRES:

https://wires.org.au/donate/emergency-fund

 

The Televised Slow Killing of Another National Leader

Source: samaa,tv

Pakistan has a history of getting rid of its democratically elected leaders in a manner that is both torturous to them and to their supporters. From Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to Akbar Bugti and from Murtaza Bhutto to Benazir Bhutto, there is a long history of the Pakistani deep state establishment influencing the demise of popular leaders. These days, another national leader is being killed slowly and his demise is being televised all across the nation. The only three times Prime Minister in the history of the country, Mian Nawaz Sharif.

The government has been resorting to the petty measures of denying the former Prime Minister proper medical care for several weeks, as promised in Imran Khan’s speech in a Washington D. C. rally, until his situation brought him on the verge of death. He was denied bail repeatedly despite recommendations from his doctors. A patient of heart disease, his level of blood platelets fell to a critical level. Even his kidneys are said to be affected of late and he has been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder. Foul play is not being dismissed as an explanation for his condition.

On the other hand, President Asif Ali Zardari is also being held despite his worsening condition in terms of his cardiac health. His family is being prevented to see him. Former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is being held on frivolous allegations by NAB and was kept with the death row prisoners. The controversial and corrupt National Accountability Bureau, which was perhaps established to target political victims, remains to be the central body behind the inhuman treatment of national leaders who have not abrogated the constitution or committed treason, unlike their leniency for the former dictator Pervez Musharraf.

Meanwhile, the silence of his supporters and the people of Punjab for a man who has done so much in their service has been deafeningly loud. What is perhaps even worse is the attitude of his brother and current Opposition Leader and former Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the party leaders in his camp who remain silent on his dismal condition. These leaders, which include Former Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal and Former Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, are still rooting for making up with the military and finding a way back into the cozy corridors of power that the Punjab politicians are so used to.

So leaders such as Ahsan Iqbal can bother to hold Kashmir Rallies to please the national security establishment but they will not take it to the streets for the health and safety of his leader. All he could ask for was prayers for his leader on the deathbed, with passively outraging about the brutal measures of the current administration. The PML-N loyalists should never forget how these leaders have behaved in these circumstances when Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz Sharif are being incarcerated for political reasons.

“کشمیر بنے گا پاکستان” کا نعرہ ملک کے طول و عرض میں گونج گیا۔ PMLN کے کارکنان نے پورے ملک میں پرجوش ریلیاں نکالیں pic.twitter.com/zfLnpjzt6R

— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) October 27, 2019

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But more than anything, it is the callousness and the indifference of the people of Punjab which hurts the most. They have betrayed yet another political leader who stood up for democracy and civilian supremacy in Pakistan. You would expect that there would be streets erupting with protestors in solidarity with Nawaz Sharif, angry at the kind of abuse he is being subjected to in the prison by the Punjab government.

Had Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman not announced his “Azadi March” against the government, the agenda of which does not even mention the political arrests of the opposition leadership, there would be no protests against the current government. The secular opposition is disappointing who would not even come out on the streets with their leadership on the verge of death and for ceding space to Islamist parties such as the JUI-F.

Nawaz Sharif’s situation has become stable since the scare on October 22 but he is still on his deathbed. Maryam had said much earlier that the government will be responsible if anything happened to Nawaz Sharif. But she can add her uncle’s name and her party leadership to the list of his killers.

The courts finally granted him temporary bail as a desperate measure. His daughter Maryam is still being prevented to see him. And people like Firdaus Ashiq Awan are still making fun of someone struggling for his life.

This is the price of public service in Pakistan.